1.   Mustafa Demir, a shepherd and butcher in Istanbul, supplies sheep for the annual Islamic feast.

2.   Crowds gather each year at dawn on the last day of the Islamic feast of Ramadan to do the work.

3.   Exiled anti-government activists called on followers Wednesday to protest a government crackdown on political unrest by not celebrating a major Islamic feast.

4.   Exiled anti-government activists called Wednesday on their followers not to celebrate a major Islamic feast to protest a government crackdown on unrest.

5.   Exiled anti-government activists Wednesday called on their followers here not to celebrate a major Islamic feast to protest a government crackdown on political unrest.

6.   Iraqis have little region to rejoice on Islamic feast day.

7.   Wazir said the tragedy could have been far worse, if it were not for the fact that many residents left over a four-day Islamic feast.